Azure Friday

Scott talks to Azure Websites software engineer Chris Gillum who gets is up to speed on Azure Websites' Easy Authentication and Authorization. This new "one-click" feature can take any Azure Website - that means node.js and PHP as well as ASP.NET and Java - and quickly setup authentication and authorization!

Scott talks to Yochay Kiriaty about the new CDN support for Azure Websites! Before you could manually create a CDN and copy files over from your Azure Website, but this new feature automatically syncs your Azure Websites static files directly to the CDN! This means faster images, JavaScript, and static content for your users!

Galin Iliev shows how to automate Testing in Production in Azure Websites in order to automatically control how much traffic we route to each slot. Galin shows the Testing in Production extension, and talks about the data that the runtime provides you in order to make a decision.

Galin Iliev talk about Azure Websites Testing in Production which lets you route some of your traffic to another slot that may contain a newer version of the site that you'd like to test.

Guy Burstein talks with Scott about community contributions to Azure SDK's and documentation, and shows the new and simplified process for signing contribution license agreements.

Guy Burstein demos how to create a simple GitHub bot that interacts with GitHub for automating processes.

Joseph Idziorek talks about management of Elastic Scale and how to move partitions from one shard to another. Areas covered in this video: Managing shards based on split, merge and move operations Stepping through a shard move example Useful topics and links: Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Overview Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Topics

How do we scale out databases in Azure? Joseph Idziorek talks about multi-tenant environments vs. single tenant environments, and how our apps should deal with them. Areas covered in this video: Demonstrating the Elastic Scale Starter Kit Working with the **shardMap object, the **MultiShardConnection object, and the **MultiShardDataReader object Useful topics and links: Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Overview Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Topics

Joseph Idziorek talks about the Azure SQL Databases pricing tiers and shows Scott how easy it is to scale up and down thier SQL Databases in Azure.

Apurva Joshi (AJ) shows Scott how to use the Azure Websites Migration Assistant to migrate an on-premises site to the cloud in just a few clicks. Areas covered in this video: Migrating a Website (IIS 6.0, SQL 2005, ASP.NET 2.0) running on Windows Server 2003 to Azure Accessing the Azure Websites Migration Assistant tool Understanding the Readiness Report and Readiness Assessment Completing options and selecting which specific websites to migrate Useful topics and links: Websites and Apps Azure Websites Migration Assistant Documentation